Biofuel outlet nears opening.Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard BIOFUELS AVAILABLE SeQuential Biofuels will offer these products at its new Eugene station at 86714 McVay Highway, accessible from the 30th Avenue exit from I-5. The station's grand opening celebration is Sept. 2. It will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. for retail sales and from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. for those with card keys. E10: For all gasoline vehicles, a mix of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline E85: For flex fuel vehicles, a mix of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gas B5: For all diesel vehicles, a mix of 5 percent biodiesel and 95 percent petroleum diesel B20: For most diesel vehicles, a mix of 20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent petroleum diesel B99: For some diesel vehicles, a mix of 99.9 percent biodiesel and .1 percent petroleum diesel It's been a long time coming - four years of advance work, two years of cleanup and construction - but Eugene's first alternative fuel retail station will open for business sometime in the next couple of weeks. SeQuential Biofuels, a Eugene-born company that kick-started the sale and production of biodiesel in Oregon, will be selling ethanol and biodiesel blends at a station just off Interstate 5. The station includes a convenience market that will offer specialty coffees and bakery products from Eugene's Sweet Life Patisserie pa·tis·se·rie n. A bakery specializing in French pastry. [French pâtisserie, from Old French pastiserie, from pasticier, to make pastry, from *pastitz, . The station may be a first in Oregon, said Diana Enright, communications manager at the Department of Energy. While there are wholesale pumps offering biofuels, retail options are scarce for ordinary consumers, she said. "What's really been the missing component for biofuels is the retail infrastructure," Enright said. The only pump Enright knows of that supplies E85, the ethanol-gasoline blend for GM and Ford flex-fuel vehicles, is the one in Salem for the state's own fleet. The Department of Energy helped SeQuential with two loans, one for this facility and one for its production plant in Salem, which processes spent vegetable oil from Oregon snack manufacturer Kettle Chips into the fuel mixes that feed diesel engines. "The department's mission is to provide incentives for renewable energy Renewable energy utilizes natural resources such as sunlight, wind, tides and geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, wind power, and hydroelectricity to biomass and biofuels for transportation. and conservation," Enright said. SeQuential got its start in a Eugene garage - the dream of friends Ian Hill Ian Hill (born Ian Frank Hill, January 20 1951, in West Bromwich, England) is a founding member and bassist for the Birmingham based heavy metal rock band, Judas Priest. Hill learned how to play the double bass from his father, a bass player for local jazz acts. and Thomas Endicott, who began by manufacturing their own biodiesel from vegetable oil from area restaurants. Their enterprise has grown since then to include 26 fuel outlets in Oregon, mostly along the I-5 corridor I-5 Corridor can refer to the following:
The Eugene station will offer something for almost every kind of vehicle. Ethanol is a renewable fuel processed from crops such as corn and sugarcane. Biodiesel can be made either from virgin vegetable oil, such as soybean soybean, soya bean, or soy pea, leguminous plant (Glycine max, G. soja, or Soja max) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia, where it has been or canola oil Noun 1. canola oil - vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids canola vegetable oil, oil - any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants , or the used cooking oil disposed of by restaurants. While Eugene biodiesel fans have been able to buy the product from SeQuential here for the past couple of years, they were only able to do so during limited hours and directly off a truck, Hill said. The company built its environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] outlet on the site of an old gas station that had left a polluted brownfield behind. With help from an Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and grant, SeQuential cleaned up the site and constructed a station with a lighter footprint. "We need to be a different kind of fuel company," Hill said. The canopies sheltering the fuel pumps are solar panels that will provide 30 to 50 percent of the station's electrical power. The convenience store is angled south to capture winter light and heat through clerestory clerestory or clearstory (both: klĭr`stōr'ē, –stôr'ē), a part of a building whose walls rise higher than the roofs of adjoining parts of the structure. windows. During the summer, low louvers will allow evening air to cool the building, reducing the need for air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. . The roof is planted with hardy sedum sedum: see stonecrop. sedum Any of about 600 species of succulent plants that make up the genus Sedum, in the stonecrop, or orpine, family (Crassulaceae), native to temperate zones and to mountains in the tropics. in an effort to control stormwater runoff, and ditches called bioswales run along the west and south edges of the property. They'll also hold stormwater and trap any pollutants washing off the site. Microbes in the ground will naturally break down any hydro- carbons. "It's like a big sponge," Hill said. The extra effort to control run-off was important to SeQuential because the station is just 1,000 feet from the Willamette River Willamette River River, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It flows north for 300 mi (485 km) into the Columbia River near Portland. Oregon's most populous cities are in its valley. The Fremont Bridge, a steel arch with a main span of 1,225 ft (373 m), crosses the river at Portland. , Hill said. The energy-efficient building cost about 25 to 35 percent more on the front end to build but is expected to save SeQuential money over the long term. The company will receive tax breaks for some of their efforts. Susan Hill Susan Hill (born February 5, 1942) is a British popular writer of fiction and non fiction. Her novels have been best sellers, and she remains best known for her ghost story The Woman in Black. , an architect with a Kentucky firm and Ian Hill's mother, designed the project with help from landscape designer Sarah Whitney at Habitats, Inc. in Eugene. With gasoline prices soaring in the past year, biofuels have suddenly become competitive, Hill said. "Biodiesel was cheaper than petroleum diesel eight times this year," he said. Hill expects that state-owned flex fuel cars will fill up at the SeQuential station, but he hopes that at least three-quarters of their business will come from private consumers. Sen. Ron Wyden will be on hand Wednesday at a dedication ceremony for the new facility. A public celebration will be held Sept. 2. |
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